Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general, then the validity of the whole competition is called into question. The judges would do well to consider the adverse effect their decision could have on the prestige of future contests. Qualified musicians cannot be blamed for apathy toward a competition that doesn't guarantee them a fair hearing...
...Every one of the plot theories," wrote Roche, "must necessarily rely on the inconceivable connivance of one key man: Robert F. Kennedy, then Attorney General of the U.S. Any fair analysis of Senator Robert Kennedy's abilities, his character, and of the resources at his disposal, would indicate that if there was a conspiracy, he would have pursued its protagonists to the ends of the earth...
Writing well below his form in Marat/ Sade, Peter Weiss follows the first rule of the polemicist: never play fair. He has omitted a single, solitary act of mercy or justice on the part of his colonial administrators. Even stage villains are not that consistent. The cast, however, infuses the evening with its own humanity. The unmasked joy with which they finally rip the bogey asunder is obviously not confined to a gesture of liberation in a Portuguese colony...
...consulted yourself and you've concluded your moral obligation to think and decide, then it's your moral obligation to act. Unless it's purely suicidal, in which case you haven't thought it through right. In other words, you've got to think. And all laws are fair game...
Even in Mississippi, with 42 per cent of the population Negro and a dozen counties capable of electing Negro officials, fair elections would not necessarily result in any Negroes on the delegation. It is selected by a statewide convention whose delegates are in turn chosen at the county level. Negroes could not possibly gain a majority of the state's 82 counties...